Re: XEmacs has just (more than) doubled in size
Jan Vroonhof writes:
Robert Pluim <rpluim(a)bigfoot.com> writes:
> Here's a (possibly insane) suggestion: rather than dumping, why don't
> we compile the lisp files to C? We could then make select portions
> dynamically loadable, and remove all that unportable dumping code.
This was Kyle's original plan.
Sort of. I think Robert meant that we would translate Lisp code
to C code. My plan was to translate Lisp_Objects into C data
structures after temacs -l loadup does all the initialization.
Then we compile the new .c files that contain the structs and
link the new .o files with the other .o's to produce the final
XEmacs binary.